Judy B., in reqard to your query about the early roads traveled by settlers: I'm not young but I just this last week did a genealogy program on the migrations routes across the U.S. One of the earlier roads traveled was called the "Great PA. Wagon Road" The current highway # 81 through VA followes it pretty closely. Starting up in Winchester it ran to Staunton, to Lexington, to Roanoak (Big Lick" at that time) to Rocky Mound down to Martenville to Charlotte, N.C. on into SC. The current Halifax county is a little to the east of this road. Another road called the "Wilderness Road" took off from Roanoak, VA and ran westward to Wytheville to Abingdon where it split into two branches. One branch headed south in to TN to Knoxville then to Nashville. The other branch ran northward into KY from the cumberland Gap up to Boonesborough where it made three small splits. JoAnn C